Fantasy Football: One Potential Cut Candidate for Every NFC Team

Kyle Rudolph underwhelmed in 2018, and the Vikings can cut him with no dead money. Which other fantasy-relevant players are in danger of being released?

In a short time, our attention will turn to big-money free agents and rookies as NFL offseason of roster construction goes into overdrive. But it should be remembered that the next few weeks will be rife with trepidation for a lot of veterans, especially those for whom the guaranteed portions of their contracts have been exhausted. Players who haven't performed up to their salaries may be asked to take a pay cut to remain on the roster, while others may be cut loose altogether.

With this in mind, let's take a look at one potential fantasy-relevant cut candidate from each team.

Throughout the piece, we'll reference our Net Expected Points (NEP) metric, which is an in-house metric we use to evaluate teams and players. Not all plays are created equal, and NEP allows us to differentiate the value between a 10-yard completion on 3rd and 8 and a 10-yard completion on 3rd and 12. In addition to that, we'll also look at Success Rate, which is the percentage of plays that positively impact NEP.